@skippitymonster: I am sure. But you can't hang out on io9 and NOT learn about Star Wars. ;)

@skippitymonster: I'm not, but I kick ass at trivia, I have a good memory for useless facts :) But the only movie of the six I liked was Empire, that was dark and twisty and had good visuals. That one, I've seen a few times. :)

@skippitymonster: That's enough to make me hack someone up and leave him for the lava tides to consume. Absolutely. And I'd steal his droids and give them to the Rebellion, just for that extra touch of "up yours, Sithy" Oh wait, that happened too! Maybe I've been thinking about this movie the wrong way, and should…

@skippitymonster: I'm no Star Wars fan, but having seen the movies (and thankfully borrowing a reviewer's copy for that third one so I didn't have to pay) I'd say Angry Kenobi, disgusted and heartbroken that his apprentice turned out to be the bad guy, doesn't care about being Jedi-like at that point. Everything's…

@Ghost in the Machine: The machine made him could be a feint, a tease, but maybe the machine will turn out to be something that flipped a switch, unlocked a portion, but Peter made the choice to go with it.

I liked is seeing Walter and Peter at the end, and even though Walter now knows that Peter is killing the shapeshifters, he just sits there, looking very Walter-like, but despite his fears about what peter might become, you can still see the love he has, and of course, nothing is shared.

Carbon capture and storage is just a way to allow the old way of making money to continue making money for companies refusing to change.

There's cheesy and then there's painful. And then there's that clip up there. Gah, I'm glad we're moving past all that.

@tsunamino: Platforms, yes, 70s disco style platform boots would have offered the proper support for that costume. :) But too late for that now I guess.

@Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: There's an easy solution for this: avoid fame! That seems to be the problem. Without fame, embarrassment is, well, minimized :) Fortune is good. Extreme fame is bad. In fact, extreme fame could even become... a disaster! ;)

@Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: Booooooring! Just make them practice for endless hours until they resent you forever despite the fact that they'll never suffer a major embarrassment and will eventually look back and thank you once you've passed on. Isn't that what parents do for children who want to be athletes?

@Modred189: No I am saying if they practiced in them they'd have better balance. :)

@collex: Dress as the pilot, not the mech? That's my conclusion from your equation. Sounds like a good idea.

Sometimes people go too far with the costumes. You have to work your way up to that level of mobility, well, lack of mobility. It's something girls learn early on. But even then, only a few of us care to truly master it.

@OgilvyTheAstronomer: Hrm, a harpoon, yes. No space junk floating around afterward. So if we need to combine both options, the harpoon would be brilliant and you get the body back along with the suit. Grim, but space travel is expensive and if you can recycle the suit...though who would want to wear it after that?

All we really need is a rocket powered grappling hook launcher. You aim near the spacewalker and launch past, then deploy the grapple hooks out, and retract.

@FrankN.Stein: Media wise, well, those bits where they take e-mails and show pictures are pretty unfocused on news and more on showing the image. It's fluff, and hey I know about journalistic fluff, I'm great at those articles! It's a lighter side of the news program, to alleviate from all the doom and gloom.

Ah, headlines. I'm pretty sure that while some settlement elements go back to 75,000, the advanced part, meaning people with sails on rafts and really good quality tools, is in that 8,000 to 10,000 range.

I think the first FB answer of it being photoshop work is correct. I could make that from a regular night pic, and you just lower the resolution on the save and it gets a nice blur, and there you go.

@corpore-metal: And some of us gals just want to go look at The Wolverine and forget the actor is married and has kids and all that. Plus there are ROBOTS! So it's, as we might say in the vernacular, "got win written all over it". :)